Bring back the ratings op and run The Suburbs

No I don’t like doing that I just try to catch it off listen

If it’s a concept album I read the wiki

i say keep the scores, people who get worked up about scores are weird

Distant Relatives & Flockaveli

Bringing them back ig

F*** the haters I tried listening to that vampire s*** too and it was pretty much how u described it

That was a while ago to maybe my taste changed but yeah no f*** them

Yeah it’s overrated

Last day of 2022… a little depressed today so doing Recovery

Day 14: Eminem - Recovery

People hate on Recovery but if he retired after that he'd have a pretty good discography

Definitely better than anything he dropped in the 10s

Spacebound >>>>>

You're Never Over might be his worst hook to date

Relisten to Almost famous this s*** is as bad if not worse

Hoes LOVED Recovery tbh

Day 15: Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

I was curious to listen to this since it's been recommended to me a lot and it won a Grammy for album of the year so I wanted to hear how to compares to other albums so far.

It's more of that 2010 indie music, that attempts to be very atmospheric and cinematic. I hear that mostly in the first two songs The Suburbs and Ready to Start. From then the album flows pretty well with nice transitions and a lot of reverb, violins (like the ones in Empty Room), dramatic vocals, really trying to be energetic and epic and I think it works a little bit.

Month of may is a nice punkish song. We used to Wait is a nice 80's rock type ballad. and ofc Sprawl II is a nice synthpop song with the female vocalist shining more than usual. Made me wish this album had more of this. however the other songs didn't leave that much of an impression. It's a cohesive album but at the same time it sounds pretty samey apart from the highlights I mentioned. Mostly just OK music. (overrated maybe??)

I want to ask everyone who recommended this album again to open my eyes and tell me what makes this album a standout. Could be nuances that I didn't get yet. But from the first listen this album didn't blow me away and didn't sound that unique. Let me know.

What’s today

Listening to the classic rock album "Rebirth"

Real af. My favorite album of all time

You’re right about Locked Inside

Oh Maker is one of these baroque songs I wasn’t in the mood for… also worth mentioning that considering this albums sound I think she influenced Idlewild’s more theatrical sound

motm2 mid tbh

Drop the world is really hard… the rest tho

Day 16: Lil Wayne - Rebirth

I assume this album has to be a passion project of Lil Wayne because if this was intended to have mainstream success, releasing a rock album while being the biggest rapper in the world is a risky decision, if this was intended to have critical acclaim, someone must've told him it was bad. Plus I'm sure nobody thought this was a quality record. So I assume he just wanted to have fun, make a rock album and play guitar just because he can, and I can't hate on that, but for a passion project to be so bad and also try to sound like the most cheap poppy mainstream version of rock, it's mindblowing.

The listenable songs here are: Drop The World (amazing), Knockout (funny and ironic), On Fire and Paradice. The rest are mid to unlistenable.

Wayne's vocals being drenched in autotune and distorting sometimes has something to it, in some songs I really like it, but for most of his albums his vocals are off key, grating, and can sometimes ruin an otherwise decent rock song. Shanell who is also featured here multiple times also has awful vocals. I'd prefer Lil Wayne to rap and do a rap rock kind of mashup like he did on Runnin, it works better than most songs here where he just sounds out of place and awkward. Dadada is an awful song.

So I'm all in for artists taking risks and doing what they want but I won't be doing revisionist history, yes this album is bad. And every few months someone here claims this album is influential and influenced all the rappers who claim to be "rock stars" and have mosh pits. I think it's mostly Wayne's image and the fact he wanted to play guitar and less the music on this album. Otherwise Uzi, Carti, Travis or whoever says they're a rock star would just have the worst rock songs mumbling about being a funky monkey.

3/10

And I'm too tired to do IANAHB today save that for another day